The Stan Rogers Folk Festival and Chedabucto Bay Folk Society acknowledge that the festival takes place in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaw First Nations. Long before European colonization, the area where the festival occurs was known as Qamso'q, within the larger district of Eskikewa'kik. The Mi'kmaq, along with the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Peskotomuhkati (Passamaquoddy), were parties to the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1725-1761 with the British Crown, and the subject of the Belcher Proclamation of 1762. These documents preserved their rights to traditional land use and did not encompass the surrender of lands. Rather, the documents established an ongoing relationship between nations.